Mental Trauma Quotes

#1. If you read about the astronauts who went to the moon - the 12 who walked on it, and the others who orbited - all suffered serious mental trauma of one kind or another.

James Gray

#2. Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.

Lynette Gould

#3. Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

Richard Bentall

#4. The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial

Frank M. Ochberg

#5. Why go to France when you can smell the same people in coffee shops here in America.

Felipe Esparza

#6. No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

Nelson Mandela

#7. The primary driver to pathological dissociation is attachment disorganization in early life: when that is followed by severe and repeated trauma, then a major disorder of structural dissociation is created (Lyons-Ruth, Dutra, Schuder, & Bianchi, 2006).

Frank M. Corrigan

#8. We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

John Burroughs

#9. I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

Fleur East

#10. In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints that event has left on your mind and in your sensations... the discomfort you feel and the agitation you feel and the rage and the helplessness you feel right now.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#11. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Stefan Molyneux

#12. When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#13. DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.

Deborah Bray Haddock

#14. Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.

Stephanie S. Covington

#15. Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

Sara Novic

#16. Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Stefan Molyneux

#17. To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

Katharine Graham

#18. When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled

Brene Brown

#20. Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'... Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.

Laura Davis

#21. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Stefan Molyneux

#22. I have so many ideas while I'm driving.

Alison Mosshart

#23. Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

Alice Miller

#24. Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55

Marlene Steinberg

#25. As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#26. I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

Michel Foucault

#27. When I ask you who you are, you'd better say my fucking name.

Alicen Grey